Scientist political contributions from Massachusetts

Scientist and Massachusetts as a two-column match

Occupation SCIENTIST plus donor state MA yields $2,853,348, 14,146 contributions, and 500 donors. The occupation hub is $26,806,625, 166,337 contributions, and 4,567 donors. Massachusetts’s dollar share is about 11%; contribution share about 9% (14,146 of 166,337); donor share about 11% (500 of 4,567).

Dollar share and donor share match; contribution share runs a little lower. The Massachusetts slice is therefore slightly heavier per row than the national Scientist mix, on average across the aggregates. That is arithmetic, not a finding about NIH funding or university payrolls.

Five hundred Massachusetts donors produced 14,146 contributions, about 28 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 36 rows per donor nationally (166,337 contributions from 4,567 donors). The Massachusetts slice is slightly less contribution-dense than the national SCIENTIST mix while holding about 11% of the $26,806,625. Those two observations only appear when occupation and state stay joined.

The SCIENTIST occupation bucket

SCIENTIST is a generic string. RESEARCHER, PHYSICIST, BIOLOGIST, CHEMIST, and ENGINEER, if used, sit in other hubs. The $26,806,625 national total is only this word. Four thousand five hundred sixty-seven donors produced 166,337 contributions—frequent repeat itemization inside the label.

Economist is a separate Massachusetts occupation tie that uses a different occupation string. Do not add Scientist and Economist Massachusetts state totals and call the sum STEM giving. Filers chose different words.

Massachusetts on the state side

Five hundred Massachusetts donors produced 14,146 contributions totaling $2,853,348. Donor state MA is the address on the record, not proof of employment at a Massachusetts university or biotech firm, and not a limit to Massachusetts candidates.

The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to the state. This join is only SCIENTIST. Artist, Finance, and Investment Manager MA ties are other pages.

Massachusetts campaign finance is not a scientist table. Artist, Finance, Economist, and Investment Manager MA ties share the state code, not this occupation string. The Scientist occupation hub without MA still holds about 89% of the $26,806,625. Maryland has a parallel Scientist tie; its facts are a different packet.

Caveats on the relationship

This page does not measure research output, patents, or whether Scientist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Comparing Massachusetts with Maryland Scientist slices is only valid as two separate packets, each with its own facts—not as a ranking of science quality.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

SCIENTIST does not record discipline, degree, or employer. NIH grants, university payroll, and FEC receipts are different systems. This page uses only the last. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Recipient office is not in the join. Correlation is not causation.

Three numbers, two fields, one Scientist filter

Subtract the Massachusetts dollars on this page from the national Scientist occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Scientist in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Massachusetts dollars, or only the Scientist national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Scientist donations holds the $26,806,625 national occupation total. Massachusetts campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Scientist donors in Massachusetts given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Scientist and state Massachusetts total $2,853,348, from 14,146 contributions and 500 donors. Nationwide, Scientist-coded receipts are $26,806,625 from 166,337 contributions and 4,567 donors. Massachusetts is about 11% of those dollars.

Are these donors employed at Massachusetts labs or universities?

The FEC file does not verify employer. Occupation is the string SCIENTIST and state is MA on the itemized record. The 500 Massachusetts donors used that pair of labels. That is not a campus employment extract.

What share of Scientist FEC money is from Massachusetts?

About 11% of the $26,806,625 Scientist occupation total is in this Massachusetts join ($2,853,348). Massachusetts also accounts for about 9% of contributions (14,146 of 166,337) and about 11% of donors (500 of 4,567).

Does this include money to Massachusetts candidates only?

No. Donor state is Massachusetts. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,853,348 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.